Vintage computer ads

12 comments to Vintage computer ads

• Megan

  January 30, 2011 at 11:39 pm · Reply

  I use to have a Sinclair ZX – it plugged into the TV for a screen. And I learned BASIC computer programming at High School on the TI – they had them networked in the classroom. Very high tech!
  My Dad worked for IBM – so had an IBM p.c. at home in his study – queue flashing green cursor.
  I guess I am officially vintage!

• KEEES

  January 31, 2011 at 10:21 am · Reply

  Wonderfull to look at those ads. Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis.
  Makes me dream of my first PC computer. That wasn’t a Apple but a Apricot. Really. 1984. with a portable printer!!! An a infrared Keyboard !! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apricot_portable.png

• notjarvis

  February 1, 2011 at 1:24 pm · Reply

  They’ll never catch on you know

• Mark

  February 2, 2011 at 10:56 pm · Reply

  Ah…the ZX81, my first computer. I remember getting hold of the 16k RAM pack and being really impressed buy how much memory that was! And here’s me, 30 years down the line, typing these words into a box packing 6GB.

• Russell

  February 5, 2011 at 4:54 pm · Reply

  Time travel so it’s possible by looking into the past…No physical danger, interesting not a patch on the Tardis or a Novel by Michael Moorcock. All the same a interesting concept.

• William

  February 17, 2011 at 11:17 pm · Reply

  That Royal McBee LGP-30 is a famous machine
  http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html

• raeesmerelda

  March 6, 2011 at 5:22 am · Reply

  This makes me miss the TRS-80, though I know my parents never did ANY home finances on ours!

  Programming in BASIC (or at least, getting my brother to do it) when I was in elementary school was highly entertaining.

• Fuzztone

  June 23, 2011 at 12:40 pm · Reply

  I remember most of these ads from OMNI magazine. Still got them somewhere though probably cut up for collage purposes.

• Aneesah

  July 30, 2011 at 6:54 pm · Reply

  WOW! Just got a sincere LOL from the print ads for the TI 99/4a. That was the first computer I had any experience with–it was my older brother’s and my mother bought it for him despite the fact that he EXPRESSLY asked for an Atari. She’s a teacher so I suppose her reasoning was that the TI 99 could be used for games as well as educational software? I’m sure she was also swayed a bit by Bill Cosby–she would’ve have probably bought crack from that Pudding pushing,crazy sweater-wearing funny man,haha! Anyway, nice trip down memory lane.

• Jinx

  September 29, 2011 at 10:39 am · Reply

  Oh god, I’m old. I remember these ads, and used and owned many of these machines….

  Sigh, the Internet – I remember when all of this was fields…

• Jnordb

  December 11, 2011 at 6:49 pm · Reply

  I had one of the AT&T PCs…it was a great system for the time. We’ve also had several TRS-80 model 1 systems, a LNW/80 (TRS-80 clone), a Columbia MPC, Timex/Sinclair 1000, C64. My dad had an ALR Flexcache 20 at the time when PC magazine rated it the fastest PC available (at a whopping 20 mhz.) The AT&T was hooked up to a Bernouli Box external hard drive that took 10 MB cartridges. It also had an early Logitech optical mouse which had to be used on its own metal mousepad. Those were the days…

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